Arms & Equipage Needed to Supply the Militia

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Type

Letter Signed

Description

Clement Biddle, the Quartermaster General of Pennsylvania, asks Hamilton to order Samuel Hodgdon to provide the arms and camp equipage Biddle needs to equip the militia that it is about to set out for Reading and Harrisburgh. [Whiskey Rebellion]

Date

09/24/1794

Sent from

Philadelphia

Document number

1794092440001

Notable persons

Alexander Hamilton
Clement Biddle
militia of this state
Colonel [Samuel] Hodgdon

Notable locations

Philadelphia
Reading
Harrisburgh
Virginia
counties
Pennsylvania
western counties of Pennsylvania

Notable items

wagons
arms and camp equipage
necessary supplies for Virginia
stores
Whiskey Rebellion
insurrection
stores
wagons